Caught between knowing what's right and taking action? When this gap widens, paralysis sets in. Bridge your thoughts back to meaningful change before you fall.
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An important aspect of psychoanalytic therapy is exploring your dreams - yes, those dreams, the ones you have in your sleep. They can be recurring dreams, pleasurable fantasies, or those dreaded “anxiety dreams”- but a lot of the time, dreams can just be a weird jumble of mundane, vague, random collection of images that are extremely difficult to recall in a linear fashion. I’m interested in all of them.
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Caught between cultural duty and personal freedom? Asian American children of immigrants often struggle silently with parental expectations.
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Psychoanalysis invites us to consider that we are not fully in control of our minds, that we experience unresolved conflicts, ambivalences, and forbidden wishes and fantasies, all of which emerge from the lasting traces of past memories from when we were much younger. As subjects formed by language, our unconscious experiences are always mediated by the social discourses and cultural norms of the times we are living in.
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Discover how your childhood shapes your adult reality. Family isn't just where you grew up—it's where you learned to love, formed your moral compass, and built your bridge to society.
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While you've embraced mental health awareness, they may view therapy as shameful or unnecessary—a cultural and generational divide neither right nor wrong.
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The stigma of mental illness in Asian cultures can make it unsafe to express feelings of overwhelm and vulnerability, let alone talking openly about your symptoms of depression. For men adhering to traditional masculine gender roles, it often means that you keep your pain silent.
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It’s curious that most humans do everything they can to avoid suffering- it’s only natural, right? Yet the results of these actions can lead to graver discontent and even deadly consequences.
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Being good at school doesn’t mean you’re good at life, and we often overlook this fact. Asian American students frequently fall under the radar when screening for mental health issues in schools.
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With the opioid industry killing thousands of people each year from addiction and overdose, we as a society have turned our heads to solving the problem of how we approach managing pain and discomfort in our lives.
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Mistakes should not be ignored, but instead embraced for personal growth. What would happen if we paid close attention to our mistakes, just as an artist would?
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Asian Americans are seen as great employees, but still have a long way to go to be the leaders. As a psychotherapist in the Bay Area who works with Asian American professionals, I decided to interview other men to find out how this image may impact their lives.
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A therapist is a person with whom you can speak the most peculiar and difficult things about yourself. They can listen to you in a different way than other people in your life, and respond differently as well.
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First of all, I want to assure you that you don’t have to know exactly what’s wrong when you go to your first session with a therapist. Ignore what your friends, parents, partner, other health providers, or boss say you "should" work on. You can simply describe in the best way that you can, using your own words, what is happening with you that is not synching up with how you want to live your life.
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